By Emeka Mamah Kaduna — A Chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Abubakar Girei, has advised the Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, to work hard within the few months he will act for President Umaru Yar’Adua to ensure that he becomes the party’s candidate in 2011. Girei said Nigerians and the North in […]

By Emeka Mamah Katsina—Former Inspector General of Police and Sardauna Katsina, Alhaji Ibrahim Coommassie has urged the Federal Government not only to equip but pay policemen in the country handsomely to reduce corruption in the organization if it is serious with fighting graft in the society. Coomassie who spoke in an interview with newsmen in […]

By Victor Ahiuma-Young ABUJA—RADIO, Television, Theatre and Arts Workers Union of Nigeria, RATTAWU, has issued a 21-day ultimatum to government to set up a  negotiating Committee for a new salary structure for members, failing which members would begin an indefinite strike. Vanguard gathered that the ultimatum had been issued since  February 3, 2010, by leaders […]

The Federal Government has been urged to release money owed the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to enable it discharge its responsibilities effectively in the region. Making the appeal in Port Harcourt , Chairman, Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, South-South and South-East chapters, Alhaji Musa Saidu, said there was need to encourage the Commission financially so that it would contribute meaningfully towards addressing the challenges of underdevelopment and poverty in the region.

THERE were indications, yesterday, that the National Chairman of the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor and other members of the National Working Committee were yet to see ailing President Umaru Yar’adua, six days after they left the country for Saudi Arabia.